'Fight Night' in an oil-boom town
North Dakota's oil boom has drawn thousands of workers to the rural state, clogging its highways with trucks and overwhelming its small towns with new residents. Rents are sky high. Workers live in...
View ArticleA North Dakota oil worker: 'I miss my family'
The oil boom in North Dakota has created tens of thousands of jobs with good wages -- pretty much in the middle of nowhere. So for workers across the U.S., the boom is an opportunity to get back on...
View ArticleThe oil boom: Making a living off the workers
Gold rushes and oil booms set all sorts of people in motion, hoping to seize an opportunity, and the oil boom in North Dakota is no different. Todd Melby is reporting a yearlong project, Black Gold...
View ArticleThe oil boom: Born to be a roughneck
CORRECTION: The original text mistated the surname of the roughneck. He is Richard Karpe. The text has been corrected. The oil boom in North Dakota has attracted all sorts of people looking for work....
View ArticleSeeing opportunity in North Dakota's oil boom
The oil rush in North Dakota has made the state one of the most prosperous in the U.S. Not everyone who's made his way to North Dakota is an experienced rigger or roughneck -- or someone out of work...
View ArticleNot everyone in oil-boom country finds what they want
We've talked a lot about the oil boom in North Dakota and all the people who have moved there for the jobs. Oil has made North Dakota one of the most prosperous states in the U.S. But not everyone who...
View ArticleOil-boom sprawl swallows a North Dakota city
The oil boom in North Dakota has attracted tens of thousands of workers and made the state one of the most prosperous in the U.S. For those who lived in North Dakota's small towns and cities before,...
View ArticleSurrounded by wolves in a North Dakota oil town
Tens of thousands of people have moved to North Dakota to take jobs in the oil fields or businesses serving them. Independent radio producer Todd Melby has been working on a series, Black Gold Boom....
View ArticleWorking an oil rig will make a man of you
We've told you how the oil boom in North Dakota is changing global markets. All that new production is giving even the Middle East more competition. But it all starts with an oil rig and the men who...
View ArticleNorth Dakota's oil boom keeps ambulance services on the run
The oil boom in North Dakota has brought tens of thousands of workers to the state and transformed the economy. But the numbers of workers, and the dangerous work they do, have put great pressure on...
View ArticleIn oil boom, happy to drive a truck by day, a cab by night
Independent radio producer Todd Melby has been working on a series, "Black Gold Boom," about the people taking part in -- or getting swept up in -- the oil boom in western North Dakota. The boom has...
View ArticleIn North Dakota, making ribs for roughnecks
North Dakota's the land of opportunity for people looking for jobs in the oil and gas industry. The fracking boom has transformed the western part of the state -- often overwhelming the small towns...
View ArticlePhil Hamm's no billionaire, but he's got something to say about oil
The oil boom has brought all sorts of changes to western North Dakota. Billionaire Harold Hamm has had a big hand in it. His company, Continental Resources, is the biggest oil producer there. Then...
View ArticleHow to blow off steam – and the driver next to you
Tens of thousands of workers have flooded into rural North Dakota to take jobs created by the state's oil boom. Now, there's a shortage of housing and there's a shortage of restaurants. There's a...
View ArticleLooking for the bright side in Bakken's bust
Thousands of workers moved to rural North Dakota to take jobs in the Bakken oil field. Now, with global oil prices half what they were a year ago, there are fewer rigs, fewer trucks on the country...
View ArticleAn oil-worker family vows to make North Dakota home
Kendra Hill and her husband moved to rural North Dakota's oil fields so he could earn double the wages he made in their native Washington. Now they've bought a house, they have a five-year-old and a...
View ArticleIn oil glut, fewer oil rigs mean less work
The collapse of global oil prices is helping to show stock markets the way down. Over the last year, the industry that's taken the biggest hit is energy. Every company in the energy sector of Standard...
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